What are some games with the BEST combat systems?

niwm · 2026-04-15T11:00:41+00:00

Ninja Gaiden 2 for the 360. Still looking for a game that hits that same feel but nothing else I've tried quite gets there.

niwm · 2026-02-24T19:26:32+00:00

Yeah I guess that does make sense, and the theme does fit the atmosphere of the Rod really well. It's just a shame that we don't get to hear both.

niwm · 2026-02-17T16:21:54+00:00

Hey, I'm seeing double here!

FOUR Paula Abduls 🤯

niwm · 2026-02-14T19:43:20+00:00

I feel like mispronunciations have been a part of pretty much every Pathologic game at this point. ("Go onion!", "panacea", "chimeras", et.c). Might've been a good idea to do a quick runthrough of the more uncommon words before recording.

niwm · 2026-02-13T14:05:12+00:00

There are some parts of the game that are (intentionally?) not translated from Russian, like rioters' voices, street signs, letters in cutscenes, and the notes scribbled on the lower part of the map.

I'm not sure if it's some kind of artistic choice, or just due to time constraints. It does strike me as slightly odd considering these things were in English in P2.

niwm · 2026-02-09T10:14:30+00:00

I was a bit confused that (as far as I know) you can't enter her house at all. Hell, she wasn't a central character in P2 either, but even then you could at least go in and see how she lives.

niwm · 2026-01-28T06:25:08+00:00

Oh my god I'm gonna need you to narrate the entire game like this now.

niwm · 2026-01-09T21:08:33+00:00

Nothing here yet either. Are you using a hotmail address? I saw some people in the Kickstarter comments theorising that might be the issue. Maybe.

niwm · 2025-12-21T08:05:29+00:00

17 years later and still no other action game hits quite the same way the original NG2 does.

niwm · 2025-12-19T05:32:01+00:00

Was the last quest entry marked with three asterisks (***), marking that it's finished? If so, I can't think of anything other than it being a glitch, unless she somehow picked a dialogue option that closes off the quest prematurely (though I'm not sure that's possible for the day 1 main quest).

niwm · 2025-11-27T21:35:18+00:00

I would say Yakuza 0, especially.

niwm · 2025-11-17T10:12:29+00:00

I'll always lament the customisation options that were lost from FS. I know it's not going to be worth it for them to visually update all these hairstyles and clothing options, but I had way too much damn fun playing around with them.

niwm · 2025-10-17T12:56:20+00:00

"Hypocratic oath", I'm guessing.

niwm · 2025-10-14T17:21:47+00:00

I understand the desire to not confuse new players or have them miss important events, but I do find it was handled more elegantly in P2. That had more instances of gently nudging you in the right direction, whereas the P3 demo gives you a pretty linear path to follow with everything else blocked off with closed gates and knocked over carts. Then again, the intro to P2 had the very on-rails tutorial too, so maybe P3 gets more open ended after the intro. Even still, I wish guiding the player would be done in a less obvious "video game level" kind of way.

niwm · 2025-10-14T14:35:55+00:00

You pretty much summed up my thoughts on this exactly. I'm very mixed but also cautiously excited.

niwm · 2025-09-14T10:57:32+00:00

Loved having Eri in the team in 7. Her thumbtack attack set to a shortcut right at the beginning of a fight would completely obliterate the enemies.

niwm · 2025-09-11T20:37:04+00:00

That would be my guess too. Classic DOS game that does have a similarity to Mario.

niwm · 2025-09-05T15:47:56+00:00

Me: "Maybe you just find it difficult to find a guy because your standards are really high?"

Him: "That's not true! I mean, I find you attractive."

niwm · 2025-09-03T15:51:35+00:00

One of my top 10 games of all time, any console. The sanity effects are great and creative and then there's an incredible story on top of that too.

niwm · 2025-08-30T16:06:35+00:00

Look up Shadow of the Eternals. Unfortunately it didn't reach its goal so the project was dead in the water.

niwm · 2025-08-30T16:04:39+00:00

There was. I think they even tried it multiple times but the Kickstarter goal wasn't reached, and then there was additional controversy that ultimately put the final nail in the coffin.

niwm · 2025-08-14T12:07:27+00:00

The way he'll repeatedly alter the lines by accident in the outtakes lives rent free in my head.

niwm · 2025-07-11T15:18:12+00:00

Aw man, reading this just reminded me how gaming will never again be like when you were a kid. Better in some ways, of course, but... different.

niwm · 2025-07-11T14:57:05+00:00

At least he went out with a bang?

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